..Developments within both paradigms can benefit from interchanging ideas and principles from which eventually medical care will benefit. In this process a key role is foreseen for communication and communication research...

..The aim of this study is to examine whether analogue patients (lay people judging videotaped consultations) perceive shifts in the quality of doctor-patient communication over a twenty-year period...

..It is not clear to what extent this mirrors patients' and parents' preferences. This study investigated communication preferences of childhood cancer patients, parents, and survivors of childhood cancer...

Older cancer patients' information and support needs surrounding treatment: An evaluation through the eyes of patients, relatives and professionals

..Fatigue is a common problem, which is found more frequently among women than men. To date, neither the etiology of fatigue nor the factors that explain the gender difference in its incidence are still fully understood...

How to make the medical consultation more successful from a patient's perspective? Tips for doctors and patients from lay people in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands

..It is important to take into consideration differences between gender-dyads and between countries when studying gender effects on communication across countries or when comparing studies performed in different countries...

..This study examines to what extent GPs display both strategies during consultations for minor ailments and investigates how each of these relate to the patients' perceived health, consultation frequency and medication adherence...

..Female GPs were more affective than their male colleagues, and they used gender-specific communication strategies to explore the patient's agenda. It seems necessary to use a gender-sensitive approach in communication research...

Determinants of participation in social support groups for prostate cancer patients

..This paper describes the development of the Active Listening Observation Scale (ALOS-global), an observation instrument measuring active listening and its validation in a sample of general practice consultations for minor ailments...

The costs of guideline-concordant care and of care according to patients' needs in anxiety and depression

..However, the heart rate appeared to diminish the more often the students had reassured the patient. These findings suggest that in evaluating students' communication performance there is a need to take their stress levels into account...

Interventions to improve recall of medical information in cancer patients: a systematic review of the literature

..This study examined the genetic knowledge and attitudes of patients with chronic diseases, and the relationship between both. In addition, patients were asked about their preferred source of genetic information...

Perceived need for mental health care and barriers to care in the Netherlands and Australia

..Secondly, our inclusion criteria focused the attention of very severe chronic pain patients, and thirdly, we have defined 'chronic' as more than 6 months, while others have been using shorter time spans...

Evaluation of communication training programs in nursing care: a review of the literature

..New counselees may be helped by receiving more information on the counselling procedure prior to their visit, and may be advised to prepare the visit more thoroughly so as to help them verbalise more their queries during the visit...

Effects of video interaction analysis training on nurse-patient communication in the care of the elderly

..To investigate how oncologists can balance explicit with general and realistic with hopeful information when discussing various topics at the transition from curative to palliative care in breast cancer...

Reasons and determinants for not receiving treatment for common mental disorders

..Interventions aimed at increasing adolescent mental health service use should be directed at parents and adolescents, and at the roles of school personnel and general practitioners in the detection of problems and referral...

Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents: a review of recent literature

..It is concluded that the study provided GPs with a tool to discuss illness representations and actions plan of patients with hypertension. Implications for the management of hypertension adherence in primary care are discussed...

..However, the lack of intervention in the organisational structure and obstructive factors such as under-staffing seemed to get in the way of the integration of multi-sensory stimulation in the daily care in two of the six wards...

Demand and supply for psychological help in general practice in different European countries: access to primary mental health care in six European countries

..This may influence patients' expectations and requests for help and GPs' performance. In this paper the effects of working in different health care systems on demand and supply for psychological help were examined...

..Child and adolescent psychological problems are rarely brought to the attention of GPs. Children and adolescents with psychological problems who do visit their GP are seldom identified as such by GPs...

The effects of the implementation of snoezelen on the quality of working life in psychogeriatric care

..To investigate the effectiveness of snoezelen, integrated in 24-hour daily care, on the behavior and mood of demented nursing home residents...

Afghan refugees and their general practitioners in The Netherlands: to trust or not to trust?

C Titia FeldmannFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht, The NetherlandsSociol Health Illn 29:515-35. 2007

..Negative experience tended to be interpreted as a sign of prejudice on the part of the healthcare professional. The findings of this study are discussed in the wider context of research into patient priorities in general practice...

The workload of GPs: patients with psychological and somatic problems compared

..To investigate if general practitioners (GPs) with a higher workload are less inclined to encourage their patients to disclose psychological problems, and are less aware of their patients' psychological problems...

Initial cancer genetic counseling consultation: change in counselees' cognitions and anxiety, and association with addressing their needs and preferences

..Also, a more effective service may be attained if counselors pay more attention to counselees' emotional needs and detail more inheritance and penetrance of mutated genes in relation to counselees' family history...

..Providing medical information appears the most powerful communication aspect to increase counselee satisfaction and address needs. More research is needed on how to address adequately (emotional) needs and increase feelings of control...

A review of successful aging models: proposing proactive coping as an important additional strategy

..We propose that proactive coping may be important for successful aging, since it results in a prolonged availability of resources for optimization and compensation processes and a delay in disengagement from important goals...

Effects of an intervention promoting proactive coping competencies in middle and late adulthood

..We also tested the differences between pre-chronic, recently chronic, and persistently chronic pain in the prediction of disability (impaired physical and mental capacity, pain interference with activities, immobility due to pain)...